Educational Outcomes for Scotland's Looked After Children 2010/11

Table 5 shows the number of all pupils and looked after children who were excluded at any point during 2010/11 and the pupil exclusion rate per 1,000 pupils. Each pupil may have been excluded more than once. The rate per 1,000 pupils is much higher for those who were looked after than for all pupils, which is consistent with the rate of actual exclusions per 1,000 pupils shown in table 4. However, the pupil exclusion rate is lower than the number of exclusions rate, which indicates that the same pupils are being excluded more than once during the academic year.

Table 5: Number of different pupils excluded and exclusion rate per 1,000 pupils by all pupils, looked after children and sector, 2010/11